Congratulations to our 2024 Summer Research recipients from Geography, Music, Education, Architecture, East Asian Studies, Public Health, Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, and Film & Media.  Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this semester's Fellows. Read more

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 pre-proceedings (NeurIPS 2023) Read more

Celeste Kidd's lab received a BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "Truth, lies, and misinformation during cognitive development." Read more about the results of the project! Read more

Summer research from Julia Irwin on "Patterning Recognition: A History of Artificial Perception." Read more

Edgar's work is featured in the exhibition Lifelike! Read more

Published by MIT Press, this new volume explores the cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces. Read more

Riya Manimaran worked with Meg Everett on Hybrid Learning Environments. Read more

Check out the amazing work from BCNM faculty, students, and alumni at the ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference of 2023! Read more

Congratulations to Akira Ono, Isabel Li, Nika States, Reica Ramirez, and Wish Wang! Read more

Congratulations to these amazing students working in the fields of Asian studies, education, computer science, geography, film & media, rhetoric, EECS, architecture, and more! Read more

In Parapraxis, Author Hannah Zeavin explores the question "What is psychoanalysis but the recuperation of history through its traumas and limits toward a curative and emancipatory end?” Read more

Hannah writes about the fate of the children of psychoanalysis for Parapraxis. Read more

Please join us in welcoming our 2022 cohort of Undergraduate Certificate in New Media students! Read more

Check out the great work of our faculty and alumni around the web this November! Read more

Check out BCNM at the 25th ACM Conference! Read more

Ken Goldberg is featured in the 6th Annual Conference on Robot Learning. Read more

Ethnic Studies Associate professor Keith Feldman, History professor Hannah Zeavin, and writer and scholar Ra Malika Imhotep featured at American Studies Association 2022.  Read more

Applications are due February 1, 2023. Read more

Alum Pablo Paredes starts as an Assistant Professor at UMD this Fall. Read more

Hannah Zeavin was featured in the event on September 29, 2022. Read more

Celeste Kidd and Carolyn Baer published "Learning with certainty in childhood" in Science Direct. Read more

Julia's dissertation is titled "Patterning Recognition: A History of Automated Visual Perception." Read more

The 119th American Sociology Association annual meeting took place in Los Angeles on August 5-9. Read more

Antonia Violante is in conversation with Jane McGonigal on Behavioral Scientist.  Read more

Hannah discussed Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project. Read more

Helplessness isn't learned — it's an instinctual response that can be overcome. Read more

Jen Schradie's work is featured in A Section of Now: Norms and Rituals as Sites for Architectural Intervention. Read more

Ken Goldberg and team publish a new paper on Offline Meta-RL for Safe Adaptation and Fault Tolerance. Read more

Amazing representation of BCNM presenting at 4S, the Society for Social Studies of Science!  Read more

Check out the work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web! Read more

BCNM alum Noura Howell has joined Georgia Tech as an assistant professor in Digital Media. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this October! Read more

Julia Irwin received a BCNM 2021 Summer Research Award. Read about her great work researching and writing about the archives of industrial psychologist Lillian Moller Gilbreth and her husband Frank B. Gilbreth. Read more

Pablo Paredes will join The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies in July 2022 as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Read more

Ken Goldberg and his colleagues present Latent Space Safe Sets, a promising strategy for safe learning in high-dimensional state spaces. Read more

Janaki Vivrekar discusses the critical designs that make up our digital social media experiences in her new technical report. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this July! Read more

Ken Goldberg co-authored a paper with Zaynah Javed, Daniel S. Brown, Satvik Sharma, Jerry Zhu, Ashwin Balakrishna, Marek Petrik, and Anca D. Dragan on Policy Gradient Bayesian Robust Optimization for Imitation Learning. Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this June! Read more

Congratulations to the incredible students, faculty, and alumni who represented BCNM at CHI 2021! Read more

BCNM member and School of Information professor David Bamman co-published a paper titled, "Characterizing English Variation across Social Media Communities with BERT." Read more

BCNM faculty member Celeste Kidd is a recipient of the Janet Taylor Spence Award for her work on knowledge acquisition! Read more

Hannah Zeavin was invited as a guest in KQED's forum on the prevalence of therapy apps. Read more

BCNM alum Pablo Paredes' paper is featured in the proceedings of the International Conference on the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction.  Read more

Kevin Lo and alex cruse come together to launch Return the Eye. Read more

Björn Hartmann published a paper on "Debugging Deep Learning Programs using Program Structure and Model Behavior". Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty, students, and alumni around the web this February! Read more

Celeste Kidd received a Seed Grant to examine "The role of reasoning and metacognition during belief formation in the internet era". Read more

Check out the amazing work of our faculty and alumni in May 2020! Read more

As the Coronavirus becomes more widespread she argues that we need to learn how to adapt quickly to global changes that will continue to disrupt our daily lives.  Read more

Jane McGonigal writes on the benefits of entering the lottery for Wired.  Read more

Last year, both BCNM students and alumni presented compelling new research at annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2019. Read more

Each year, the Berkeley Center for New Media pairs undergraduates with a graduate student mentor, offering them the chance to complete real, graduate level research while at Cal. We are thrilled to announce this year's Fellows. Read more

Is media silence as powerful in shaping public discussion as deliberate rhetoric? If so, do editorial boards need to strategically amplify certain speech? Read more

McGonigal's smartphone app SuperBetter was recently featured on Vox. Read more

We are thrilled to welcome to BCNM these talented students from across campus! Read more

Ruberg presents "Necklines and ‘Naughty Bits’: Constructing and Regulating Bodies in Live Streaming Community Guidelines." Read more

Ken Goldberg contributed to "Extending Deep Model Predictive Control with Safety Augmented Value Estimation from Demonstrations." Read more

Ken Goldberg at BrainBar, on home robots and the relationship between robots and retirement. Nicholas de Monchaux on the moon suit at the Santa Fe Institute. Alum Bo Ruberg's Video Games Have Always Been Queer in Real Life. Alum Jane McGonigal on the gamification of the warehouse. Alum Trevor Paglen on Our Privacy Mess and at Art Basel. Alum Jen Schradie at the Microworks Platform Conference. Read more

BCNM students faculty and alumni put up a strong showing at ACM's Creativity and Cognition 2019 conference!  Read more

BCNM was thrilled to co-sponsor this School of Information conversation about the challenges and opportunities created by the rise of big data. Read more

Celeste Kidd received a 2019 BCNM Faculty Seed Grant for "The Role of Reasoning and Metacognition During Belief Formation in the Internet Era." Read more

Bo's incredibly popular Game Developer's Conference lecture is now available for free to view online! Read more

These students invested in the new media landscape at Cal, and we're excited to see what new endeavours they undertake in their respective fields Read more

César presented "A Conversation with Actuator" at TEI 2019 on behalf of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. Read more

BCNM Alum Bonnie Ruberg will present at the 2019 Game Developers' Conference Read more

Jane McGonigal developed a toolkit to help keep many large Silicon Valley tech companies, as well as start-ups, keep their priorities and ethics in check. Read more

This summer, Noura Howell developed a prototype for a biosensing bench for connecting community members. Read more

"Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI," writes Ryan Nakashima. Read more

Molly Nicholas is a Spring 2018 BCNM Conference Grant Recipient who attended "Engage at CHI" 2019 in Montréal, Canada. Read more

Ritwik Banerji, Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology, discusses new developments in his research about human sociality in relation to AI. Read more

Overwhelmed by the amazing panels at CHI 2018? Make your CHI experience a BCNM one with our guide to where our students, faculty, and alumni will be presenting! Read more

The generous Eugene Jarvis Design Innovation scholarship was awarded to two of New Media's most outstanding students. Read more

From sports and cultural data analytics to art and technology performances, from design to the philosophies around technology, these students are excited to dive into New Media on campus.  Read more

Ken Goldberg and team published on BAIR about DART: Noise Injection for Robust Imitation Learning. Read more

BCNM alum Jen Schradie spoke with CNN about the #MeToo movement, discussing effective mobilization and action through a digital medium. Read more

Eric Paulos (EECS, Jacobs Design Innovation) developed a design tool to allow artists and designers to plan for their creation's destruction and failure as part of our Faculty Seed Grant program. Read more

Sonia Katyal, a BCNM faculty member and law professor at Berkeley, publishes an article on why you should be suspicious of that study claiming A.I. can detect a person’s sexual orientation. Read more

Damon Young received a $5000 junior faculty seed grant to produce a book commissioned by MIT Press on identity in the age of #selfies Read more

The “Color of New Media Working Group” met as a part of Commons Conversations to discuss the vertiginous political climate. Read more

Miyoko Conley recaps Bernard Stiegler's exciting Symposium held in October. Read more

Goldberg gave an address at the plenary session on August 30, entitled "Multiplicity: What Robots and AI Can Teach Us about Being Human" Read more

We'll miss their energy and their intellectual curiosity around BCNM, but wish them all the best in their new endeavors and look forward to the amazing intellectual, artistic, and technological contributions we know they will produce Read more

A packed house greeted the first panelists for the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Robots and New Media Symposium on April 4, 2014 Read more

This year, thanks to the craigslist Chair endowment, we were able to support five graduates with awards of $1,000 to help defray technology and training costs. Read more

Crittenden recently published a blog post entitled "Public Open Data: the Good, the Bad, the Future" Read more

For his project "Agency, Structure, and Organization: Paths to Participation in Large-Scale Socio-Technical Systems" Read more

Coye is an Associate Professor at the School of Information and a longtime member of the Berkeley Center for New Media Executive Committee Read more

The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answer Read more

We are delighted to announce the following newly students to the BCNM Designated Emphasis and Master's Certificate Program in New Media Read more

"Opinion Space" is a social media technology designed to help communities generate and exchange ideas about important issues and policies. Read more